When you do a cartoon based on news headlines, you do it based on incomplete information.

Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s.

Close friends love you for who you are; not what they want you to be.

I was reading through all these NSA programs that Snowden has revealed, and one of the ones that fascinated me was that smart TVs can be used to look at you in your room. That is totally like the telescreen from 1984. It's not sort of like it, it's not a lot like it, it is it. And the ability of the NSA to turn on your cell phone, even if it's powered down, and listen to you in your home - that's insane to me. People had been warning that 1984 was just around the corner. Well, it has arrived, and Snowden has proven that.

That's what comics journalism does better than anything else: you can get a feeling of what it was like. Like Scott McCloud says, especially with a simple drawing style, you can project yourself into the image, and imagine yourself having those experiences.

I'm a better editorial cartoonist by default because so many editorial cartoonists out there are so awful.

It's a perfectly valid position to not like Shakespeare.